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The GBV name on Let's Go Eat the Factory' s label indicates two things to those fans: this is the first record to feature the "classic" Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes line-up since 1996, and this is the first Pollard album to deserve the GBV moniker since t Guided By Voices, Inc. (2012) By GARRETT MARTIN | January 13, 2012

Hey, it's another Robert Pollard record. Today must be a day. We can't even joke about how prolific this guy is because we've heard 'em all a million billion times already. Ernest Jenning Record Co. (2011) By GARRETT MARTIN | March 11, 2011

When Guided by Voices announced their reunion tour this year, it marked a milestone of sorts for the Dayton band. This is arguably the first conventional career move they've ever made. The club is open, once again By BRETT MILANO | November 05, 2010

Amiri Baraka put it best in his poem "In the Funk World": "If Elvis Presley is King/Who is James Brown, God?" So, by that logic, is Fela Anikulapo Kuti higher than or equal to God? Knitting Factory (2010) By ZETH LUNDY | February 12, 2010

Pollard doesn't care whether you listen to his music. The entire world could be rendered deaf and he'd still put out a half-dozen albums a year, driven by a need to express the twisted melodies and schizophasic lyrics that clutter his brain. Guided By Voices Inc. (2009) By MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | August 14, 2009

Johnny Carson was revered for his impeccable comic timing. It was "so precise," wrote one newspaper in his obituary, "that we wouldn't be surprised to find buried in his skull a quartz crystal." And why might that be? Perhaps because Johnny Carson was a What's the connection between comedy and percussion? By MIKE MILIARD | August 14, 2009

Ah, wintertime. It's dark, it's cold, it seems like you might lose a few extremities to frostbite on the way to the club. You know what? Just go for it. Local CDs to help you make it until spring By MATT PARISH | December 29, 2008

We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year. An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 24, 2008

It’s refreshing that Pollard isn’t trying to rewrite the two-minute power pop of GbV’s heyday, and his relentless (and hyperprolific) pursuits are admirable. Robert Pollard’s Boston Spaceships at the Paradise, September 30, 2008 By RYAN WALSH | October 08, 2008

Lack of talent, charisma, and/or personality can prevent a good band from achieving greatness — but too much of a good thing can also be a problem. Joan As Police Woman lets her guard down By MATT ASHARE | September 16, 2008

Pollard achieves the balance of indie and arena rock he’s been chasing for years, but he demonstrates something new in his approach Robert Pollard Is Off to Business | Guided by Voices Inc. By MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | June 09, 2008

What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place. What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007

Only a fool would’ve taken Guided by Voices’ 2004 break-up as a reason to believe we’d heard the last from frontman Robert Pollard, a Budweiser-slugging former grade-school teacher who’s never met a three-chord hook he didn’t like. Robert Pollard, "Sup Normal Happiness | Merge By MIKAEL WOOD | November 13, 2006

Could it be just a coincidence that as I sit here writing this, a grizzled Bob Seger is gearing up for the release of Face the Promise , the Detroit rocker’s first proper studio album in, oh, forever and a day? The Lemonheads, "No Backbone" (mp3) Oldies and more in the season’s CD releases By MATT ASHARE | September 14, 2006

As last night’s show at T.T. the Bear’s Place proved, Keene is still a masterful songwriter, singer, and guitarist in love with his craft after 22 years in the trenches. Tommy Keene at T.T. the Bear's By TED DROZDOWSKI | June 15, 2006

A couple of months ago, a man with the screen name x-amount logged on to Recidivism.org , the blog he maintains with a few of his friends, and made a pronouncement. Will sites like YouTube and The Hype Machine go the route of Napster? By MIKE MILIARD | June 12, 2006

From the first song, notice was served at the Paradise last Friday that Robert Pollard's first solo tour would be a different beast from the raucous, shambling piss-ups that marked Guided by Voices gigs of old. Get a faceful By MIKE MILIARD | April 24, 2006

The other day an e-mail arrived from Jo Jo Gator, a guy some of you may know is a local and national pop music impresario. Jo Jo Gator bids farewell after two decades in the music biz
By BOB GULLA | January 25, 2006